Ms Heidi

pulling up internet stakes

2008-04-23T03:13:40Z

I've been thinking for a while of moving to a new blog that combines the thought I put into my posts on Astrarium with the ease and bite-size chunks of Vox posting (but without the Vox advertising). In the middle of one of my fever dreams last we...

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museums of the year 2008

2008-04-15T17:11:32Z

Ten museums - from Orkney to Exeter - have been longlisted for this year's £100,000 Art Fund prize for museums and galleries. See the contenders here. -Maev Kennedy visits three of the contenders

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penelope

2008-04-15T17:06:31Z

Smoking and dreaming: film still from How to Marry a Millionaire with Marilyn Monroe, Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall, 1953 (USA)

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braking a catch

2008-04-12T07:25:53Z

from Grist: For the first time ever, the Pacific Fisheries Management Council has voted to cancel the salmon fishing season off the coast of California and much of Oregon due to exceedingly low populations of chinook salmon in the Sacramento Rive...

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ani difranco, wells fargo center for the arts, 04.11.08

2008-04-12T07:18:06Z

shy half-assed fuel angry anymore swim red letter year akimbo manhole modulation parameters grey here for now back back back two little girls the atom alla this joyful girl gravel little plastic castle 32 flavors Ani does a bruised heart good.

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inside the american scene

2008-04-11T20:30:09Z

A new exhibition featuring work by Edward Hopper and Jackson Pollock recently opened at the British Museum. Catch a preview in the Guardian's gallery.

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the war that time forgot

2008-04-10T15:25:23Z

An exhibition of photographs has opened at the Rivington Place gallery documenting the Bangladesh war of independence

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mesmeric

2008-04-08T17:38:31Z

The telephone rang. The waiter wiped a glass dry and held it up to the light. Not until I felt I could stand the ringing no longer did he pick up the receiver. Then, jamming it between his shoulder and his chin, he paced to and fro behind the ...

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all change

2008-04-07T16:18:29Z

Royal Mint reveals the first new coin designs for 40 years, dreamt up by a 26-year-old trainee graphic designer. See the designs here. -Mint unveils new coin designs

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like servants below stairs, we all have tales of naipaul's rudeness

2008-04-06T16:31:42Z

from the Guardian: He has his knighthood and his Nobel and only in flashes does he write as he used to. The next few days may be his last big week. The biography is published on Monday and on Thursday he has a 90-minute documentary on BBC4. They ...

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